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Architectures of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems

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Picture a system so large it cannot be comprehended. Can such a system be "designed" in any conventional sense? Will machines help design it? Will it help design itself? How will it keep running? Will it be alive? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.

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Richard P. Gabriel has a PhD in CS from Stanford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. He's been a researcher at Stanford, President and CTO at Lucid, Distinguished Engineer at Sun and is now a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research where he looks into architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems and techniques for building them.

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Aug 29, 2008

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  • Fascinating

    by Faisal Waris,

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    I remember from my AI course last year the idea of "Cultural Algorithms" (Prof. Robert Reynolds of Wayne State) that seems to suggest that digital evolution can be more or less a continuous process - a part of the system itself.

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  • Reference

    by mikhail franco,

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    dreamsongs.com/Files/DesignBeyondHumanAbilities...






    Mik

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  • Hmm...

    by John Leach,

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    Couldn't we say that the internet internet would be a ULS?

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  • Re: Hmm...

    by John Leach,

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    just one internet... :)

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